Getting the following error - No suitable driver found for jdbc:postgresql://localhost: 5432/testDBMS

Question

I get back an error indicating java.sql.SQLException: No suitable driver found for
jdbc:postgresql://localhost: 5432/testDBMS

import java.sql.*;
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Answer 1

The syntax to compile was - java -cp .;"C:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\9.3\lib\postgresql-9.3-1102.jdbc4.jar" JdbcPostgresqlConnection. Note 2 things; the quotes around the jar specification and the jar files cannot be in a folder with a space in the name. This is normally not the case on *nix system, but is often encountered in Windows systems. Note too, that when I put the jar file in the same folder with the java program I could eliminate the double quotes - java -cp .;C:\AZ_Fantasy5\postgresql-9.3-1102.jdbc4.jar JdbcPostgresqlConnection. Special thanks to JB Nizet for pointing out this situation.